Phillips Family History
Phillips Name Meaning
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic):
patronymic from the personal name Philip. In North America this
name has also absorbed cognate names from other European languages,
for example Italian Filippi, Polish Filipowicz.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Phillips Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Phillips families
 1,488 - 2,973  497 - 1,487 |
 1 - 496  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Phillips families
|
4,298 - 8,593 1,433 - 4,297 |
1 - 1,432 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Phillips families
|
413 - 823 138 - 412 |
1 - 137 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Phillips Family Origin
Phillips Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Phillips
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Phillips Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Phillips census records
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Phillips Civil War Service Records
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